Bottle stopper and measuring glass



D. MOLINARI. BOTTLE STOPPER AND MEASURING GLASS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-23, 1920- Patented June 13, 1922.

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DOMENICO MOLINARI, OF BROOKLYltT, NEW YORK.

BOTTLE STOPPER AND MEASURING GLASS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 13, 1922,

Application filed August 23, 1920. Serial No. 405,223.

To all whom it may concemt:

Be it known that I, DOMENICO MoLINARr, a citizen of the United States, residing at 2340 Pacific Street, in the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement of a Bottle Stopper and Measur- 1ng Glass, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to proide, as a new and improved article of manufacture, a new and improved combined bottle stopper and measuring glass which may also be used as a drinking cup. It may be made of any suitable size and shape, to be used as a stopper for receptacles of all shapes and sizes of the bottle or jar type; and while the same may be made of other materials, in the usual and most preferred form it is constructed of transparent, or at least translucent, glass, etc.; and is usually brought to form by blowing in a mold while in a plastic molten state, in the manner well known in the art of glass-working.

Hy said invention is fully shown and described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing, comprising a single figure, forms a part; wherein is shown in central vertical section, the top portion of a bottle of ordinary shape, etc., having one of my improved measuring stoppers in the bottle-stopping position in the mouth thereof.

As shown in said figure, in the particular form of embodiment shown, my said improved combined bottle-stopper and measuring glass, is composed of a hollow, substan tially cylindrical main-body or base portion A, having a flat outer surfaced integrally formed end-plate B, closing the same at one end, generally and usually of sufiicient thickness, and weight. to hold the same against accidental over-turning when used as a -measuring-glass, and supported by such outer fiat surface upon a table or other suitable like support. And in this particular form, the main-body c lindrical portion A, merges by the gradual y converging central cylindrical wall portion C, with the stopperportion D, tightly fitting within the orifice of the bottle-neck E, formed integral with the bottle-body F; such neck-orifice and the stopper-portion D, being usually each of the gradually diminishing diametered form shown, and such stopper-portion D, being usually and preferably ground into tight fitting connection with the wall of the neckorlfice, in the manner well known in positional grinding in of ground-glass stoppers of the well known solid form; and such stopper-portion D, is usually and preferably provided at its extreme outer open mouth and, with an inwardly extending annular strengthening ring or bead G.

Carried at suitable intervals by the peripheral wall of such combined stopper and measuring glass, and usually but not necessarily extending entirely around the same, are a number of measuring-lines showing the capacity of the device when used as a measuring-glass, and filled up to such line, when held with the open mouth at G, upward; and in this case the measurements are indicated reading from the bottom, merely by the fractions and numerals shown, viz: i, t, a}, 1 and 2, which, according to the size of the chamber of the stopper may mean, tea-spoons, table-spoons, drams, which measuring lines and numerals may be formed in or on the glass surface by etching, or by being blown exteriorly in the glass in the process of formation, as I have indicated only however as to the line marked 2, as

shown at H. And as the ground-glass stopper-surface should not be marred by wording placed thereon, to indicate the full capacity of the stopper-glass, words such as Level full equals 4 may be placed on the stopper, as shown at C; but all such measurments and lines shown, are of course, only tentative, and are shown in the drawing, as reversed, for better showing of the idea; and I do not intend to limit myself to any particular form of indicating marking for measurements, as any such marking I consider to be within the broad scope of my invention.

Neither do I intend to limit myself to a ground-in stopper, nor to one in which the stopper fits within the bottle-neck orifice, as the stopper may be located exterior to the bottle-neck, and be ground or not ground to fit, as may be desired, and still be within the scope of my invention, as I do not limit myself to the exact form ofconstruction shown.

I claim;

1. The combination with a bottle, of a stopper therefor, said stopper comprisingv a substantially cylindricathollow glass receptacle open at the end to be inserted in the bottle thereby providing a rim, and having the exterior wall thereof adjacent the rim the body portion being provided with gradugrourii 0 fit the neck of the bottle. b ations.

, 2. ott e stopper com risin a su Stan: v 1 T tially tubular glass recep acle pen' at the DOMENHO MOLIhARIf 5 end to be inserted in the bottle thereby pro- Witnesses:

viding a rim, the rim portion of the recep- WAIqZaER R. HART,

tacle being ground to fit a bottle neck, and JULIUS LPHTANM. 

